Invisible Children Book Drive

My friends younger sister was telling her about the book drive that her school is participating in for the Invisible Children. I remembered that someone had blogged about Invisible children so I thought I would show you guys what they are continuing to do to help these children.

The motive behind the book drive is to better educate the people of these nations and give them a better brighter chance at a future.

http://www.invisiblechildren.com/bookdrive

GAIA

Hey everyone, I know some of you had an interest in the presentation I gave at the beginning of the quarter on Global Action in the Interest of Animal's campaign against the food foie gras.

GAIA is a Belgian animal rights activist groups. Their foie gras campaign was against the process of making this French delicacy due to the mistreatment, suffering, and animal abuse that the ducks and geese go through in order to produce this food. Here is a link to the add as well as the website.

Ads:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2001/foiegrasthumbty0.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2008/03/anti-food-capaign-ads.html&usg=__HY_2K1wLuIh6VD-zdthzp2JDbys=&h=552&w=375&sz=38&hl=en&start=1&sig2=4FDr4OVZ-V1YM7xx-a4flA&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=5xNWkrN07IvvfM:&tbnh=133&tbnw=90&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfoie%2Bgras%2Bactivist%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=0acCTN-4B5jkNJuvmTU

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Here is the link for GAIA:

http://www.gaia.be/

Environment Colorado

Hi everyone--

Here's my video I showed in class yesterday. Any input for improvement would be greatly appreciated? Can this video be considered activist? Is there an applied call to action to join the organization and enter into the democratic process?

Environment Colorado from Ben Zenner on Vimeo.

Free Speech TV

hey guys,

here's my video that i presented today. hope you guys enjoyed it.

Performance from DJ Spooky

DJ Spooky At TATE Modern London 2010 from Nonlineari.nteractive on Vimeo.

Gives a little taste of live performances by DJ Spooky and how he utilizes a lot of new media techniques in his alternative media shows.

Flash Mobs!

I participated in a flash mob on campus on Tuesday and I wanted to post a video and see what you guys think about the topic of flash mobs in general.

Flash mobs are becoming more and more common, especially because of organizations such as Improv Everywhere.

(Check out their YouTube channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/improveverywhere?blend=1&ob=4)

They are supposed to be a complete surprise, and performed in a public place, so that people going about their daily lives can witness the event. Sometimes they can be used to spread a message as well, therefore, in my opinion, becoming a form of activist media.

In our particular situation, we performed the event during a carnival for the DU May Days event because we knew people would be there. The object of this flash mob dance was to bring about school spirit in a creative and fun way. Unfortunately, as you will see in the video, a few too many people found out it was happening beforehand. But regardless, it was a lot of fun.

University of Denver Flash Mob from Jerad Larkin on Vimeo.

What do you guys think about flash mobs becoming a form of activist media?

Yo Peace

Here is the link for yopeace.org that I was thinking of doing my final project on, but decided on something else. Although I decided to focus my energy on the Help Elephants' campaign, I am still really interested in this organization as well. At yopeace.org, you can find a lot of information regarding their campaigns to stop the wars going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. They try to use their different artistic images from graphic artists, printmakers and visual artist to inspire a broader audience to be alternatives to violence.